[Perry Cheng]

The gt240 is pretty old & wasn’t a real speed demon when new so I don’t know why you put that in a new build, at minimum I would put in a gtx285(if you have an adequate power supply). Do you have a GDDR5 version or GDDR3 version? If you have to use a gt240 a GDDR5 version would be recommended for that card.
>> It is a GT240 DDR5

Your hard drive situation sounds iffy too, using the tail end of a drive for projects when it only has 50-100gb left could be causing slowdowns. Drives are cheap, put a couple fresh 500gb or 1tb in there.
>> I have multiple drives, I usually free up the Video Drive (500G). Tell me how would you setup these drives? RAID? Preview Video and Preview Audio on same or different drive?

Thanks,
Perry

[Perry Cheng]

What is your hard drive setup? Free sizes seem small. You should at minimum have a dedicated drive just for video clips. Should be less than 80% full and of course defragmented. Turn off INDEXING on the video drive.
>> I will try turning off indexing in this drive. I am just simply previewing and it crawls.

You say you built your own system. Did you go to the motherboard vendor site and download/install the specific hardware drivers, or just let Windows install generic stuff? For best performance, install any specific hardware drivers offered by motherboard vendor.
>> I was hoping to be able to keep my previous hardware without buying everything, but I ended up buying almost everything now… man, if I have to buy a Video Card, I might as well not upgrade my cpu, because I really haven’t seen that much improvement from my Q6600 to this i7 as far as preview, rendering seems faster, but not really that much faster…

When importing AVCHD footage, use the MEDIA BROWSER in Premiere to find/import clips, rather than just Importing.
>> Really, this make a difference? It does not make sense to me. but, thanks anyway.

Sincerely,
Perry

[Perry Cheng]

Yes, I did update and it does improve but still, only with 2 layers, one adjust the opacity to 50% (top) and the bottom layer with one simple cross dissolve… it just crawls! Is this normal? The source is AVCHD.

Sincerely,
Perry

[Perry Cheng]

Vincent, thank you. I only use cross dissolve, and it crawls if I add 2 layers of this. I reinstall the system last night and it is showing the same. Even worse, probably becuase I haven’t update PPro to 5.03? These are AVCHD footages. Hmmm…. Just very very disappointed with i7 so far. Any other thoughts?

Perry

[Perry Cheng]

Tx Vincent for the tips. Yes, I am lazy….

[Perry Cheng]

Yes, I don’t mind getting the new Hardware, my headache is reinstalling all my software! Do you know of any easy way to migrate the software programs to a new computer? (I assume I have to get a new CPU, Motherboard at least, if not GPU.) That takes hours. I may actually have to go with converting AVCHD route for now if there is no easy way. What a pain!

Thanks guys,
Perry

[Perry Cheng]

do you recommend i3, i5 & i7?

Perry

[Perry Cheng]

thank you all… it is time to upgrade.

[Perry Cheng]

Steve,
So if I convert the 44K audio to 48K in audition, would that then match up my audio? Thanks in advance.

Perry

[Perry Cheng]

Thanks guys, I will try to update my PPro. As far as the mix of audio quality, yes, I don’t know how to get around with that because of my limited equipment (personal hobby only). see my post below to the specifications limitation.

Perry